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"Oh, didn't we tell you we're doing a waiting list initiative?" Clinical support services, such as radiology, can feel a bit miffed when they are suddenly hit with a surge of work that was planned ages ago but nobody told them about. Fortunately it's easy to build them into your plans.
The English waiting list topped 3 million, and is now the biggest since February 2008, and 20 per cent bigger than at the last General Election. Despite that, long-waits have improved under the Coalition.
It's going to be an 18-weeks nail-biter in the run-up to the General Election, especially for the adjusted admitted target.
Your deadline for submitting the new "operational resilience and capacity plans" is the end of July. Here's how to make light work of it.
English waiting lists narrowly avoided two rotten headlines in April, and improved where it matters most. But trouble is still building in the longest-wait specialties.
How the old admitted and non-admitted targets pushed 58 per cent of pressured Trusts into perverse patient scheduling in 2013-14.
The rise in Scottish long-waiting outpatients has been partially reversed, but the underlying pressures continue to build.
The English waiting list dodged the 3 million mark again, helped along by a surge in admissions and yet another Trust dropping out of the statistics. As expected, the admitted patient target was breached again, which is a sign of both stress and action. Plus a full detailed analysis of the local waiting times around England.
Perverse incentives on 18 week waits would be reduced if CCGs authorised breaches in advance.
Why nothing will be done to improve England's 18-week waiting time targets.